DEWI HEALD

 

 

An A to Y of DewiWorld

 

A - Abergavenny, site of the cheese market in 'Cheese Market of the Future'

 

B - Bloggs, Jo - identity revealed in 'Meet Jo Bloggs'

 

C - a Cafe in Llanidloes is the only constant in multiple

universes in the short story 'There is No Alternative'

 

CH - Chwyrligwgan - Flickr did an 'A-Z of Welsh words' photo challenge. A picture of a roundabout was the entry for 'CH'. Did you notice it's an A to Y That's the Welsh alphabet we are using :)?

 

D - Denial, the exclusive moisturiser marketed in the story 'Denial is the Best Moisturiser'

 

DD - Ddraig Goch, the Red Dragon, flag of Wales

 

E- Englandland, a theme park in North Wales for English tourists who want to go on holiday but not leave their home comforts

 

F is for Fear - the Politics of Fear are dealt with in the book, The Seven Pillows of Wisdom

 

FF - still never travelled on the Ffestiniog railway

 

G - Groundhog Day, my favourite film. I could watch   it again and again

 

NG- yes, when I decided to do an A to Z using the   Welsh alphabet, this was likely to be a tough one

 

H - Hysteria of the political kind is investigated in an

essay in 'Seven Pillows' (like Fifty Shades, only more restful)

 

I - Ice cream, someone's favourite ice cream flavour tells you all you need to know about them

 

J - Jimmy Savile turns up in an investigation of Reality

TV and our world of instant judgements

 

L - Latch-key children, celebrated in 'The Seven Pillows of Wisdom'. Why delay? Buy it today!

 

LL - Llanilltud Fawr, location of the last survivor of the apocalypse in the story, "Me, I'm Legend, I am"

 

M - Merthyr Youth, a wonderful youth project (now

no longer in existence) that has a political essay written about them in the 'Seven Pillows' book

 

N - Neo, Welsh hero of 'Y Matrics' short story

 

O - Oddly-Shaped hills, one of them features in the

article 'Love Is ... Pointing at Oddly-Shaped Hills'

 

P - Pillows, seven of them in the title of Seven Pillows

of Wisdom

 

PH - 'Gyda Phwy?' 'With Whom?'

 

R - Rum 'n' raisin ice-cream. This is perfection

 

RH - Rhotacism, the inability or difficulty in pronouncing the sound 'r' ... one of my talents

 

S - Scrabble, a story in 'Cheese Market' explains the

only way to cheat at it

 

T - Tim, a man who meets his dead wife in 'The End

of Everything' an original take on zombie stories

 

TH - is for Theatr or Theatre, a tribute to the Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay, where I have sat in the foyer doing much writing at lunchtimes

 

U - Umpteen : number of times that I have tried to put

together e-book covers ... harder than you think!

 

W -how do you tell your date that you might be a werewolf? Cheese Market investigates this ...

 

Y - Young, Cliff - one of the greatest runners in history,

he genuinely did not do what others did.

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